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Old 04-14-2019, 06:41 PM   #6
tpbrady
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City: Gooding ID/Wrangell AK
Vessel Name: Silver Bay
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 42-002
Join Date: Sep 2012
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I’ve had both and the most important thing is to be sure it has enough horses to be effective. I can tell you conclusively a 5hp bow thruster and a 5hp stern thruster on a 42 Nordic Tug is 10hp short of being enough. Being underpowered is the best training there is to get better at handling a single screw boat. Anything over 40ft should have an 8-10hp thruster. If I could only have one, I liked the stern because it was more useful when docking to port.

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